May 21-24, 2026 Hersonissos, Crete, Greece
This year’s theme: Leveraging human-tech cooperation for the evolutionary management of cancer
Breaking abstract submissions and registrations are welcome until May 11, so if you have work you’d like to share with this community, please don’t hesitate to submit.
This year’s Evolution and Cancer Conference focuses on human–tech cooperation for the evolutionary management of cancer. Participants will explore how insights from evolution, ecology, and cooperation science can be integrated with powerful technologies, such as AI, computational modeling, and genomics, to advance our understanding of cancer’s nature and improve treatment strategies. We will also look to cancer as a model for better understanding the current challenges with AI, where breakdowns in cooperation, runaway dynamics, and competitive pressures can echo the very evolutionary processes that drive malignancy. The meeting will feature interactive workshops, cross-disciplinary talks, and collaborative design sessions aimed at accelerating progress through human–tech partnership to better understand and manage cancer.
It’s a particularly exciting program this year and Viktor Müller will give the keynote address:On the Threats of Evolvable AI: With Lessons from Evolution in Cancer. Victor is first author of a recent PNAS paper on AI and major transitions in evolution. It’s a landmark piece of work, and his talk brings those ideas directly into conversation with cancer biology.
